If your goal is more usable terabytes per dollar, factory recertified drives (FRDs) deliver real ROI: lower cost-per-TB, predictable performance, and OEM-validated quality. In a market where global supply chains are volatile and counterfeit activity is rising, FRDs sourced through …
The growing e-waste crisis has sparked a gradual shift in how used drives are dealt with. Instead of simply destroying drives, the focus is moving towards “purge and reuse”, where data is securely wiped and the storage device gets a …
With IT infrastructure underpinning every facet of our daily lives, the question of how we handle end-of-life devices grows. So what are some of the trends driving the future of secure ITAD (IT asset disposition) when it comes to storage …
In today’s information hungry age, there are more data center hard drives in deployment than ever before. But, what happens when your enterprise HDD reach the end of their useful life—simply cut your losses, replace, and move on?
Not so …
First, let’s get a definition of ITAD, an industry acronym that stands for IT asset disposition. When organizations need to upgrade or otherwise dispose of data center equipment or endpoint hardware, they turn to companies that specialize in IT …
As data generation proliferates, competition among edge data transfer services is hotting up.
The coming years will see explosive growth in data generated by the global Internet of Things (IoT). Whether it’s self-driving cars, advanced facial recognition, or the inexorable …
Embracing green hardware asset management is not only good for the environment but good for your IT budget.
Running a data center is a resource-hungry affair. Computing consumes power and requires increasingly sophisticated hardware, with a price tag to match. …
Approaches to data destruction in the enterprise data center vary widely. So, what are the steps your company should take when planning to wipe drives?
From HDD and SSD to memory cards and networking equipment, your data center is awash …
When it’s time to decommission data center equipment, planning is center stage. The tighter the project management, the more successful the decommissioning.
But the teardown won’t happen by itself. With every piece of data center equipment ultimately earmarked for retirement…
